TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– To find out the patterns of information technology (IT) use by electronic media workers in Delta State, Nigeria.Design/methodology/approach– The survey design using questionnaires to collect data is employed.Findings– These reveal the personal characteristics of the respondents – their sex, age, qualification, ranks/job titles, name of media organization; that all the respondents use IT facilities/components; most of them use computers system daily; a majority do not use internet/e‐mail nor fax machine but a majority use telephone; a good number of them use IT facilities to send message/news to their office; IT facilitates their sending/receiving of news/messages; frequent power outages among other factors militate against use of IT by the workers.Originality/value– The findings would assist electronic media organizations in developing countries to develop policies that could make media workers better users of IT.
VL  - 23
IS  - 3
SN  - 0264-0473
DO  - 10.1108/02640470510603697
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/02640470510603697
AU  - Adomi Esharenana E.
AU  - Obarakpor Esoswo F.
AU  - Akparobore Daniel O.
ED  - David Riatt
PY  - 2005
Y1  - 2005/01/01
TI  - The use of information technology (IT) by electronic media workers in Delta State, Nigeria
T2  - The Electronic Library
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 295
EP  - 301
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -